From the country that you brought you Waze navigation comes…Hagai Penkar.
Hagai making the best of his fashla
A runner from Israel became the last person to start the London Marathon, after turning up at the finish line by mistake.
Running for the Haifa Police Station, Hagai Penkar’s morning didn’t begin well as he turned up at Green Park, nearly 10 miles from the start.
When he had put the race details into his internet browser, it had mistakenly mapped a route to the finish instead of the start on Blackheath. Hagai quickly had to replan his route and make his way across South London.
After navigating London traffic, he began his race at 10:38am, the final runner to get under way.
I know we read Hebrew from right to left, but this is ridiculous.
I was also going to make one of my trademark Zionist Runner of DoomTM quips, but there’s no way you’d believe he is Mossad with those navigational skills!
If you think this is funny, check out the interview. He is so Israeli! (in the endearing sense of the word)
Despite his fashla, Hagai ended up finishing the 26 miles in 5 hours, 12 minutes and 18 seconds, ahead of some 8,000 runners (of the 39,045 registered runners of the race). So perhaps he does have something to bring to the Mossad after all..
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
